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Lemon marmalade! Candied lemon peel! Preserved lemons!

I need to find where my vacuum bags have gone. I bought a fancy-fancy Riccar, which is awesome (and smol, and portable) but of course it takes proprietary bags. Which are...somewhere in the house.

Clearly what is going on here is tortie.

I have hopes for the 16" they're threatening, because we need the snowpack.

So, as I got out of the car at Costco, the husband of the couple parked opposite me mentioned the radio thing and recognized that Spouse has an Extra license, because of the callsign.

They're everywhere!

Now, Spouse is a ham radio guy, this is his newest thing (after burning out as a director of a local SF convention) so the aforementioned vehicle has 1. A roof antenna and another mount on the back. 2. Vanity ham plates with his callsign. /

When the Spouse is a ham...

I went shopping today, because I go shopping on Saturday usually, never mind the impending storm, but I drove the Spouse's vehicle because it is a hybrid. I don't like it, it's ginormous, but it gets the best mileage of the house vehicles. So off to Costco I go. /

You know, I thought Ursula had cornered the market on weird pets, but apparently not.

How does a ferret pull a knife? Where did he pull it FROM?

I really need to do the thing that celebrities do, which is to buy a larger size and have them tailored, but it will be me doing the tailoring.

And Cush Jumbo! She was Lady Macbeth with David Tennant! Who is so vocally an exceptional human being!!

I grew up in Chicago, so that Bozo - it was local but televised national. Was even on the show twice - the story was that if you put your kid on the waiting list when they were born, they'd be on the show around when they were old enough to behave and appreciate it.

I used to wonder why almost all the photos you see are of owls glaring suspiciously at the camera - and then we saw some in RL (in person? In bird?).

I have some great photos of one glaring at us from the middle of a bush near the road. Mostly what you see is eyes.

And James McAvoy!

I shop at Costco now, and online directly if I can.

No kidding! I am in a slow destashing and also not going to Target, which is slowly getting things out of my house because I am also not buying anything new either.

I was born in 1970 so we got Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and nature documentaries and Masterpiece Theater. And Bozo's Circus.

Nope. Mom was extremely weird about what we were allowed to watch until we were in school. PBS only. And a black and white TV until I was 10, so that we wouldn't think what was on TV was real.

Bobolinks are at least nice to listen to! Even if they sound like weird modems!

Are we talking annuals or perennials?

I need to put a French drain in the front of the house, hopefully it will mitigate the flooding we get in the basement when it's been dry and then we get ALL THE RAIN EVER. I am hoping to find some young strapping children of friends to pay to do the digging.

And once red winged blackbird season is in full swing. They make some weird-ass noises!

Also, the answer to "What in the heck is that?" is almost always a goldfinch.

It's possibly the least interesting movie I've ever seen.

Pretty much.

Birds know when you're running a bird song identification app and the one you're trying to capture will stop singing immediately. And the fifteen local robins will start up.

I have a local breeding pair - Gerald likes the suet that's in the skwirl-proof suet feeder. Apparently when you're an RBWO you can reach the suet even if the skwirls can't.

My freshman year roommate did clown ministry. Mostly what I remember is that we had to warn people that the fruit in the fridge was not intended for eating.

Also it's not even that freaky.

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